Austin swam a fantastic 100 yard breaststroke race last night & finished in the medals in 7th place – a fine finish to his freshman year of High School swimming. He didn’t swim quite as fast as his preliminary tine of 1:00.18, but he still same a decisive sub-1:01. We are hoping that his success […]

It has been a very long time since I have posted anything, not due to lack of things to share, but mostly due to lack of time to post about all of the interesting that have been happening in our lives. I now have both reason & time – I just saw a lady wearing […]

Austin and just completed his first adventure race with a very respectable finish – 8th out of 114 starting teams, and 3rd in the men’s duo division. If we had had the wisdom and encouragement of my friend Jeff Radgowski to help us out, we would have done even better – especially because our time […]

This morning Austin and I were getting ready for our race when we noticed a killdeer just outside of the race transition area doing the “broken wing” routine & trying to get us to chase her. We then saw that there was an area just outside of the fence that had cones all around it, […]

Austin and I are in Hancock, Maryland on our way to compete in an adventure race tomorrow, and while we were taking a walk before dinner he found this cute baby turtle. It was in the weeds near the shore in a section of the old C&D Canal. After taking a couple of pictures we […]